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How to Draw a Rhinoceros… Sipping on a Soda
On a sunny afternoon
just a week before June
a rhino stopped by
and I’m not sure why.
I didn’t really think
as I offered him a drink
and then started to draw
he would end up as a rhino sipping soda from a straw
…and that’s the story of the rhino sipping soda from a straw. If you’d like to learn how [...]
How to Draw a Scary Monster.
Old school monsters are the best. I loved those Monster Island movies when I was a kid and still do. As soon as one of those movies came on I’d run and grab my sketch pad and start drawing…
First you hear the footsteps, then he leans back and roars that terrible roar. The whole town [...]
Google Docs Rocks
I’ve been messing around with Google Docs a bit lately and decided to try it for a tutorial I built a while back. The original was built in HTML and took forever. It was a ton of work and after I posted it I found a bunch of errors, which of course was heartbreaking. I’d [...]
Changing the Default Browser in OSX
Sorry to all my PC friends this article is for Mac owners only. Okay Mac people here’s the skinny. I love my Mac. It’s a great machine. I’ve been using Safari as my default browser for a little while now and it’s pretty good but I have to tell you, for me, Firefox is the [...]
The Bob O Show Live on Ustream Feb 24th 9PM
The Bob O Show is teaming up with The Artcast Network for a live Ustream show February 24th at 9PM Eastern. If you haven’t seen the Bob O Show before take cover, fasten your seat belts and hang on tight it’s always an adventure.
I’ll be doing a live screen capture (and trying my best not to [...]
What’s a Mini-Canvas?
I’ve been having a lot of fun with these mini canvases lately. Here’s one I did with my class at Jerry’s Artarama. These things are great.
Our theme for the last class was Under the Sea (I thought it would be fun to do a snail). We used acrylic paint, sharpie markers, acrylic gel medium, sand [...]
How to Draw a Fish
How to Draw a fish.
Just follow these simple steps and pretty soon you will have a friendly fish of your very own swimming across your page.
Mine’s name is Charlie and he likes to watch cartoons. If your fish has a name go ahead and email it to me I’d love to see him….or her… and [...]
It’s Herbie Time !!!
Some of you who have been following me for a while know that for the last 2 years I’ve been working on a series of books called the Herbster Readers. It’s been a huge project with over 750 illustrations.
For those of you who are not familiar with Herbie, he is a little brown bear with [...]
Panda
Here is a Panda I did recently. I used the brush pen to draw him just like I did in the Jerry’s Artarama videos. Then I colored him on my computer using Adobe Illustrator. If you like this little guy please feel free to download the coloring book page at the end of the article [...]
Experimenting with Adobe Illustrator
So I’ve been experimenting with Adobe Illustrator a little bit lately. I wanted to try and find a way to bring some color to the hand inked look I’ve been having so much fun with lately. A couple of weeks back I rediscovered these really cool brush tip markers while shooting the videos for Jerry’s. [...]
